Children's Hope International E-Newsletter

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

	A Russia Adoption Story Adoption Was the Bigger Plan
	Celebrate National Adoption Month! Did You Know?

DEVELOPMENT AID:

	An Orphan's Christmas List Give Hope This Holiday Season
	Gifts for Good Support Children's Hope by Shopping Online

BLOG OF THE MONTH:

Sorting It All Out
A complex, but good shade of gray.

PARENT-TO-PARENT:

Waiting Through
the Holidays
Bring Christmas Joy
to Those Who Wait

KIDS CORNER:

Kids Corner
Print and Decorate Ornaments

PROGRAM UPDATES:

	Colombia More Children Find Homes This Year Than Ever Before
	Ethiopia Adoptions to Be Completed, Families to Be United
	Kazakhstan Families Set to Travel to Bond with Their Children
	Russia Awaiting Accreditation
	Vietnam Eleven Families Especially Thankful This Thanksgiving

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CHINA PROGRAM UPDATES

The Children?s Hope China Team is very excited to announce that 26 waiting children have been placed with our China families this month and several children are currently being reviewed. Waiting children are those children available for adoption who are older or have medical needs. Congratulations to these families!

The Children's Hope China Team also received healthy infant referrals on November 5 for ten of our China families. The 10 beautiful little girls are from the Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Liaoning provinces. Nine of the girls range in age from 6? to 13 months; and one toddler girl, just over 3 ? years old, was referred to a St. Louis family. When her parents were presented her referral, they said, ?We are thrilled; she is so beautiful!?

These ten families waited 23 months from the day China entered their paperwork in December 2005. Our Chinese expedited family waited 14 months. These families will travel to China to finalize their Chinese adoptions in approximately 8 weeks. Congratulations!

The group of referrals were for Children?s Hope families with log-in-dates 12/1/05 through 12/8/05. Congratulations to these families and all our China families who have moved up in line! The next group of referrals will begin with the 12/9/05 log-in-date. Children?s Hope next log-in-date is 12/13/05.

WAIT TIME FROM LID TO REFERRAL - The current waiting time from log-in-date until referral is 23 months. We fully expect the wait from log-in-date to referral to grow to 2+ years in 2008, but we do not know how long it will grow.

Travel: Six waiting children families traveled to China this past month to complete their China adoptions and one family is set to return home on November 22. Welcome home! Children?s Hope October referral group and eight additional waiting children families will travel to China on November 29 and will return in mid-December.

2007 COMPLETED CHINA ADOPTIONS: 197

CCAA NEWS: http://www.china-ccaa.org/frames/index_unlogin_en.jsp

Miss Hailey ?Bo Peep? Satler may have lost her sheep, but at least she has her pumpkin. The two-year-old celebrated Halloween with her parents Michelle and Gary who adopted her from China in May 2007.

Don?t forget your gift of $10 can provide a gift for an orphan.